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Northeast L.A. Riverfront

The NELA Riverfront District Vision and Economic Development Plan was the result of community engagement activities that were aimed at celebrating Northeast Los Angeles’ riverfront neighborhoods: Atwater Village, Cypress Park, Elysian Valley, Glassell Park and Lincoln Heights. From 2013 to 2014, the Plan documented ideas from the community with the goal of improving the NELA Riverfront area and giving recommendations to deliver those improvements to the L.A. River and its surrounding Northeast Los Angeles riverfront neighborhoods. Download the Vision Plan (93.6 MB)

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It's just a joy to walk out this door and look over in that river. Watch the ducks, listen to the ducks fly by. The geese when they're in town and they're doing their thing.
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We teach parents to be better parents; they're already good parents but we teach them to be even better parents through our programs.
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The demographic has changed, when I first got there were more Latinos, but younger, what I would like to say yuppie or people in entertainment.
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I have a catering company that specializes in vegan cuisine and innovative home style.
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In this particular compound here everyone knows each other and helps out. There are probably thirty people that live here.
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We used to have tons of frogs at night, and it was such a beautiful sound, it would be: ribbit, ribbit, ribbit.
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There are great places to walk. Up in these hills are some beautiful spots to take the baby and the dog. It's nice and has a lot of personality with some great people.
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My husband works early and I work in the afternoon that way one of us is always with the kids.  
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It's up to us, the residents of this community to make sure that the essence of this neighborhood isn't lost.
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At Ordway Metal Polishing, we do metal polishing, we do any alloys, we do brass, copper, aluminum, and stainings. We do iron work, we do anything that's got to be bright, we do chrome plating.
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In general, the place is a lot cleaner, there's a lot of committees that have started to beautify Atwater.
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Since then the economy's been slow. After 15 years I had to sell. Now I open up shop two times a year: Halloween and Easter.
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